Visitors Come from Taiwan to Gain Knowledge of Turning Researchers into Better Teachers: [unit], Indiana University at Bloomington

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Last Updated: Wed, May 9, 2007

Visitors Come from Taiwan to Gain Knowledge of Turning Researchers into Better Teachers

Seven administrators from Taiwan’s leading university visited the School of Education this week to find ways of making their school’s top researchers into top teachers. Representatives from National Taiwan University spent Wednesday May 9 on campus. They concluded their visit the next day.

Administrators from National Taiwan University speak with Dean Gerardo Gonzalez and Steve Hinnefeld, reporter for the Herald-Times newspaper. All came from the university’s Center for Teaching and Learning Development, a new office created at National Taiwan University just a year ago. The group spent much of the day visiting with School of Education researchers and administrators. They visited with Dean Gerardo Gonzalez, as well as touring the School of Education’s Instructional Support Center—an office designed to help support faculty technology needs in the classroom. Other meetings included Dean of the Faculties Jeanne Sept and a look at the Academic Support Center at Teter Quad, which brings teaching to a student dormitory.

The administrators say that while National Taiwan University is established as a fine research institution, they are trying to develop faculty instructional skills. Their office opened last May with a mission of improving overall university teacher quality.

This is the second year the group’s toured U.S. universities to gain ideas. They’ve visited the University of Michigan and left Bloomington to travel to the University of Illinois. Last year, they went to Harvard, Yale, and the University of Massachusetts.